Being a Peer Genius tutor and mentor isn’t just a way to earn money while you’re studying. It’s an opportunity to use your knowledge to help another young person, while developing skills and experience that can benefit you for years to come.
Earn While You Learn
Peer Genius offers both paid and voluntary work that can fit around your own studies. You can choose how much tutoring you take on and, where appropriate, whether you work online or in person.
Your education comes first, so tutoring is designed to work around your studies — not the other way around.
Strengthen Your Own Learning
One of the best ways to deepen your understanding of a subject is to explain it to someone else.
Helping a student understand a difficult concept makes you think carefully about what you know and how best to explain it. Finding different ways to explain an idea can reinforce your own understanding and provide valuable revision at the same time.
So while you’re helping someone else learn, you may find that you’re strengthening your own knowledge too.
Develop Skills That Go Beyond the Classroom
Tutoring and mentoring aren’t just about academic knowledge. As a Peer Genius tutor and mentor, you’ll have the opportunity to develop valuable skills such as:
- communication
- empathy
- organisation
- time management
- problem-solving
- confidence
- responsibility
These are transferable skills that can be useful whatever you decide to do in the future — whether that’s teaching, medicine, business, engineering, law, the creative industries or something completely different.
Become a Positive Role Model
Often, young people respond particularly well to someone who is closer to their own age and understands what it is like to be a student today.
As a Peer Genius tutor and mentor, you can be that person for someone else.
You don’t have to be the highest-achieving student in your school to make a difference. What matters is having a good understanding of your subject, being able to communicate clearly and being willing to encourage and support another young person.
At the same time, being a successful student yourself means you can share your own experiences of learning, revision, exams and overcoming challenges.
Give Something Back
Not every student has the same opportunities, support or confidence when it comes to education.
By sharing your knowledge and experience, you can help another young person make progress — academically, but also in their confidence and approach to learning.
You may also gain a greater appreciation of the challenges faced by teachers and the different experiences students can have within education.
Build Experience for Your Future
Whether you’re considering a career in teaching or simply want to develop valuable experience alongside your studies, becoming a Peer Genius tutor and mentor can give you something meaningful to add to your CV, personal statement or university application.
You’ll be able to demonstrate that you haven’t simply achieved academically — you’ve also used your knowledge, taken responsibility and helped someone else to succeed.
You learn. You earn. You develop. And you help someone else along the way.
